Emily VanCamp Quotes
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.
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I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.
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I'm known for my handwritten notes.
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Not Today is definitely a movie that you have to see.
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If someone tells you you are too weak to live with freedom, they have turned you into a child.
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I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.
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I'd love to do some theater.
